Judge Edward Bindloss told him: “This blew up out of very little, from what I can see and from what I have read.

“The complainant called you a ‘fat ****’ and you grossly over-reacted to that.

“You stood up, you struck him with a pint glass you were holding, twice, to the face.”

The judge said Gordon’s reaction to the comment was “vastly over the top” but said he accepted he was an otherwise hard working family man who stayed away from trouble.

Judge Bindloss added: “It is extremely sad to see you in this position you have found yourself”.

CCTV footage of the attack at the Thorney Close Club, in Sunderland, shows the 37-year-old stand up and forcefully push his glass into his victim’s neck area twice, causing blood to pour from four separate wounds to his throat and jawline.

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He suffered a deep laceration to the front of his neck, which was down to the muscle, two cuts to the sides of his jaw and a puncture wound to the side of his ear, which were treated under local anaesthetic, as well as other superficial scratches.

The court heard he needed stitches and steri strips to the wounds.

After being attacked, he said: “James, I’m sorry, I didn’t mean it, it was a joke, I shouldn’t have said it.”

The victim did not co-operate with the police investigation.

The court heard Gordon, of Abercorn Road, Sunderland, who works as a contractor and has a good employment record.